Thy Plague Doctor

@Simonpaynton. You are seriously setting Davis up for what you believe will be a disaster? If I had information on how to persuade someone to do something I believed would damage them, I think I’d be keeping that to myself!

It’s not the fact that nothing is going to happen to @Davis that would not have happened if he hadn’t brutalized the cards.…[Read more]

@Simonpaynton. Exactly how do you propose to evidence the absence of bad luck? It’s rather tricky to prove the absence of something, as you know from trying to evidence atheism as the position of reason.

If @Davis runs out of toothpaste the day after he ate garlic, is that bad luck? If he doesn’t get a promotion he was hoping for, is that bad…[Read more]

@simonpaynton as far as I recall, you think horoscopes work too. These sorts of beliefs might stem from a need to place order and predictability on what would otherwise be perceived as a chaotic and random existence. It seems to give reassurance that there’s a big master plan out there that humans can tap into.

Honestly Simon, if you took one…[Read more]

What Belle said 🙂

Sorry @simonpaynton but, that’s the first time I’ve ever seen you give a Dr. Bob answer. My question is…what kind of mechanism do you think lies behind the cards revealing information. They are, after all, pre-fabricated pieces of plastic/paper with ink. Do the cards take on extra properties? Does it have to do with quantum entanglement? Is…[Read more]

Talking about the total opposite, a friend posted this image on FB

With the caption “All Lions are important”. It’s a parody of the meme going around that all lions should be protected per infamouse douchey hunter bribing someone to get the chance to kill an enormous mammal he had no intention of eating.

While I get the humour…and we should…[Read more]

I’ll believe in miracles when Bovine Jesus turns my wafer into filet mignon

Ha Reg, you managed it.

I’m pretty sure most young mammals engage in symbolic thinking when play fighting or play hunting. A branch can represent prey, two young can take the rolls of hunter and hunted etc. This helps them mimic their parents and practice hunting, fighting, exploring and social skills with the added bonus of diversion. Desmond Morris talks about this at…[Read more]

Too bad, too late. I’ve got the visual now, and I’m not done with it yet 🙂

Not that it matters, however I was actually addressing one of the Pope’s comments above

@mriana oh please tell me Unseen has to bring his cat a toy in Unseens mouth. Would he have to do this on all fours? Fantastic!

@bellerose very likely, Occams Razor proposes the simplest answer is likely to be the correct one. Plus I kind of like the image of @Unseen‘s cat holding a toy in its mouth, staring at Unseen, commanding, “Dance, little boy! Dance and play for me!” in cat-speak.

Pope and everyone, if you need to delete one of your own posts, let us know, we will do it for you. PM is fine for that.

@Davis. Probably the same mentality that thought it was clever to steal the Twitter account in the first place. Sad and pitiful really. Can’t imagine what the world looks like through the Twitter-thief’a glasses. Not pretty, I’d imagine.

It’s pretty sad that some sour-grapes user has not only hijacked the twitter account, and is likely raising money for dubious reasons…what’s saddest is that the sour-grapes user has decided to come onto the site here, rub it in our faces and troll us. This is what the anonymity of the internet does. It allows people who don’t have to show…[Read more]

I reported it. Hopefully more people do as well. (Doesn’t hurt that some of us have been blocked for no good reason).